This devastating new documentary explores the grave miscarriage
of justice in the aftermath of what Mayor Ed Koch named “the crime
of the century.” Following the rape and assault of a white jogger
in Central Park in 1989, five young black and Latino men were
arrested amid a wave of media sensationalism that all but cemented
the public’s perception of their guilt. Legendary documentarian Ken
Burns, along with his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David
McMahon, revisits the long road to their exoneration, taking a
careful and timely look of a city seething with racial
tensions.

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Talks

Q&A

with Central Park Five members

Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Central Park Five
members Yusef Salaam, Kharey Wise, and Raymond Santana; moderated
by journalist Curtis Stephen of City Limits.